Life Magazine Reincarnates With Life.com

The “Life” magazine is back in the form of a website and will contain archives of the magazine and new photos from Getty Images photo service.

Before Flickr, Photobucket, Picasa there was Life magazine and had brilliant photos and essays until it closed shop in April, 2007.

Time Inc., which owns the Life archives, will bring it back in partnership with Getty Images photo service via Life.com.

The new website will have pictures from the previous issues of Life Magazine and new photos from Getty.

Previously, the archives of the magazine were available via Google Images search.

You can find great pictures of the past as well as the present on a variety of subjects such as World War II, the U.S. Space program, celebrities like actress Natasha Richardson, who recently died due to injuries suffered in a freak skiing accident, Life in France, Bikini special and more.

Life.com has five major sections, news, sports, travel, celebrity and animals.

To celebrate their launch of this new site, Life.com has invited comedian and talk show host Ellen DeGeneres as their guest editor to pick a series of cute dog pictures.

Getty is also partnering with Agence France-Presse (AFP) and will share their digital photographs in the new site.

All the photos are copyrighted content, if you want to purchase it for republication, click the license link to make the purchase.

Skype For iPhone and iPod Touch Iis Here

You can now make local and international calls on your iPhone via Skype’s VoIP client. Long distance calls are made via Wi-Fi networks available near your area.

Skype is phone tool for computer user that allows anyone to make both local and long distance calls at rates much cheaper than other phone providers. While there can sometimes be quality issues, the overall service is quite good.

Skype will soon be available for the Apple iPhone but calls are restricted to Wi-Fi networks (just like other third-party services such as the chat service calledFring). The Wall Street Journal says Apple's terms of service for software distributed through its iPhone App Store "forbid Skype from accessing the AT&T 3G data network," and Apple did not return a request for comment.

So being Wi-Fi only, you'll have to make VoIP calls at home, work or at a cafe with a Wi-Fi network. The quality of the calls will depend on the network available.

A similar application is already available for Windows Mobile and Google Android operating systems.

The Skype for iPhone link is not yet available through iTunes but it should appear in the next few days (I will add the link as soon as it's available).

The application looks just like any other iPhone application, and you can chat as well as make calls to other Skype others via this iPhone application. Cnet.com has reviewed the application and gives it mixed reviews.

You can also use this App on the iPod Touch but you will need a headset with a microphone to talk.

You cannot buy Skype credits directly from the application, nor make a conference call. Also, you cannot transfer a file while chatting through the iPhone.

YouTube EDU Offers 'Education for All'

YouTube has added a special section for education named YouTube EDU and is offering more than 200 full courses for free, thanks to their partners from major universities like IIT, MIT, UC Berkley, Stanford, Harvard, Yale, UCLA and others.

Now you can watch cutting edge education videos in your living room from major universities via YouTube in their education section here at YouTube EDU.

You can watch lectures from Harvard business faculty, or if you want to watch some great culinary courses, you can click Culinary Institute of America.

You want to know more about Charles Darwin, you can find many courses and lectures here.

There are 100s of universities and colleges in the YouTube directory here, that will cater to a wide variety of interests.

According to YouTube there are currently 200 full and free courses available and more than 20,000 videos on YouTube EDU.

YouTube blog says the following about this new channel.

So if you want to know what college is like, have graduated but are a lifelong learner, or are just wondering how someone else teaches a subject that you're studying, here's your chance to find out. What’s more, this is all available on your terms -- you can learn at your own pace, in the comfort of your own environment, and there are no tests required.

You can learn at your own pace.

If your college or university is not available, make them contact YouTube EDU Partner Interest Form to add their videos.

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Google Docs Adds Collaborative Drawing Feature

Google Docs has a new drawing feature allows us to draw basic charts and diagrams within the word-processing documents, spreadsheets and presentations.

Now you can add simple flow-charts, drawings, pictures in Google Docs and share it with your clients or friends.

Google Docs provides plenty of drawing tools and offers a variety of shapes, lines, arrows, text boxes and scribble tool to make simple as well as complicated drawings.

To insert a drawing along with your text, just go to the position where you want the drawing inserted and click “Insert” in the menu bar and click “Drawing”. A new box pops open where you can edit your drawings. Once you complete the drawing, you can close the box by clicking the “x” mark at the top of the box.

Add drawing in Word documents online. Googledocs.blogspot.com

Google said the following about this feature in their blog:

The drawing feature that we've built relies heavily on a relatively new capability in browsers: the ability to render vector graphics. We use the SVG (scalable vector graphics) standard to accomplish this in most browsers and VML (vector markup language) where SVG is not available. Only recently has the performance and ubiquity of such technology enabled us to deliver what we hope is a delightful feature. As browsers continue to improve, we can deliver more and more useful cloud-based functionality.

It works in Firefox and IE, but I don’t know whether it works in other browsers. It is a nice feature to have online.

Drugs Found in Fish Near Water Treatment Plants

Fish Market in New York City.

Baylor University researchers have found traces of drugs in fish captured near 5 major water treatment plants in the country.

Bryan Brooks, Baylor University researcher and professor and his colleague Kevin Chambliss tested fish caught in rivers near water treatment plants in Chicago, Dallas, Phoenix, Philadelphia and Orlando. The treatment plants released their sewage into the adjacent river. They compared it with New Mexico’s Gila River Wilderness Area, which is isolated from human sources of pollution.

Brooks and Chambliss caught fish in those rivers and found residues of pharmaceuticals in their tissue. The medicines they found were used to treat high cholesterol, high blood pressure, bipolar disorder, allergies and depression.

The researchers altogether tested fish for 24 different pharmaceuticals, along with 12 chemicals found in personal care products.

Their study has prompted Environmental Protection Agency to do a nationwide study to check other water treatment plants also.

Brooks told Discovery.com:

"The average person hopefully will see this type of a study and see the importance of us thinking about water that we use every day, where does it come from, where does it go to? We need to understand this is a limited resource and we need to learn a lot more about our impacts on it,"

Brooks said if a person consumes that fish, he or she has to eat hundreds of thousands of fish dinners to get a single effective dose. But nevertheless it is still a huge area of concern. He said even minute amounts can affect fish, frogs and other aquatic species in the rivers.

The water treatment plants though they do a good job in removing the impurities, they don’t remove traces of drugs. The drugs then end up in the rivers. Also, some dump the entire tablets via their toilets instead of disposing it safely and eventually ends up in the river stream.

Brooks and Chambliss found concentrations of seven drugs and two soap scent chemicals in fish at all five of the river sites. They didn’t detect any drugs or chemicals in the fish caught in rural New Mexico.

Also, AP tested the drinking waters and found pharmaceuticals in 17 of 27 metropolitan areas affecting more than 46 million in the US.

Red Meat Increases Risk Of Heart Disease And Cancer

Researchers from the US National Cancer Institute claim those who consume a high amount of red or processed meat carry a high overall risk of death due to cancer and heart disease.

The study, published in the current journal of Archives of Internal Medicine, was based on more than 500,000 people.

The researchers found the people eating the most meat were consuming about 160g (0.35 pound or 5.64 ounce) of meat.

And those who ate the least were eating about 25g (0.88 ounce) per day equivalent to a small bacon strip.
The big meat eaters carried a higher risk of death from all causes including heart disease and cancer over the next 10-year period according to the researchers.

But if they had eaten a higher portion of white meat then they would have carried a slightly reduced risk of death over the same period.

The researchers found that 11 percent of deaths in men and 16 percent deaths in women during the study period could have been prevented if they had reduced their red meat intake to the levels of lowest meat eating group.

The researchers believe that during high temperature cooking of red meat, cancer-causing compounds are created and pose a high risk to the eaters.

Meat is also a major source of saturated fat, which has been associated with breast and colorectal cancer. Lower meat consumption has been associated with reduced risks for heart disease including lower blood pressure and cholesterol levels.

Dr Barry Popkin of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, wrote in the same journal and said eating red meat has its benefits if eaten in small portions.

"The need is for a major reduction in total meat intake, an even larger reduction in processed meat and other highly processed and salted animal source food products and a reduction in total saturated fat."

Ed Yong, from the charity Cancer Research UK, told BBC advices us to eat red meat in moderation.

"No one's saying that people should avoid bacon or burgers completely, but evidence from large studies like this tells us that cutting down on these foods can reduce the risk of dying from cancer and other diseases."

If you still prefer eating red meat, CBS has some good tips how to cook and eat them properly.

MIT Teaches The World For Free Through 'OpenCourseWare'

MIT offers all its courses for free online.

MIT’s OpenCourseWare initiative to make most of their courses available online for free appears to be a major success. More than 53 million individuals worldwide have visited its site.

MIT launched the “OpenCourseWare” initiative in 1999 and slowly has made most of their regular courses available online for worldwide scholars and students for free.

MIT now has 1800 courses online. Most of them are also available in iTunes and download audio and video podcasts of the courses.

MIT provided the following data about this initiative:

• More than 53.7 million individuals have now visited OpenCourseWare's site/affiliated sites;

• OpenCourseWare servers have now delivered over 3.1 billion files ("hits") since launch;

• 8.5 million zip files of full course content have been downloaded from the site;

• 2.1 million OpenCourseWare videos have been downloaded from iTunes, with its videos viewed more than 2.5 million times on YouTube.

Cnet.com says not only students from other colleges study the MIT courses online also high school students, international students, teachers, professors and others.

If you want to brush up your computer, architecture, management, literature and other fields, MIT offers plenty of courses for free.

You can check it out here.

Mississippi to open trash-to-ethanol plant imported from Canada

Trash to Ethanol Conversion Plant. Photo: Enerkem.

The state of Mississippi has decided to convert the trash into ethanol instead of incinerating it. With help from a Montreal company it will produce 20 million gallons a year of ethanol from the landfills.

Enerkem from Montreal revealed this news today that they will produce 20 million gallons a year of ethanol from waste at the Three Rivers Landfill in Ponotoc, Mississippi.

Previously the trash either remained at the landfill or was incinerated. This ethanol conversion will help the environment and help manage the trash in the landfill.

The project is estimated at $250 million dollars.

The raw material for the ethanol will be the solid waste from the landfill, wood residues from the forest and agricultural activities and the ingredients will then be converted to ethanol.

Enerkem also has a trash handling facility and is able to sort the materials for recycle and those for ethanol processing. The produced ethanol will be blended with other gasoline products.

This process along with other waste conversion processes are cleaner than existing technologies including incineration according to representatives from the four companies--Ze-Gen, IST Energy, Enerkem, and Plasco Energy Group.

The waste to ethanol process works as follows:

After sorting and drying the waste, Enerkem breaks down the material with heat and pressure using a gasifier. The gasifier creates a synthesis gas that is a mix of carbon monoxide and hydrogen. That synthesis gas, or syngas, is then converted into ethanol or other chemicals.

Enerkem developed this technology in 2000 and has built a few demonstration facilities in Canada. They claim to have fully developed the product and are now trying to commercialize their products worldwide.

Besides Enerkem, there are two more companies, Coskata and BlueFire Ethanol that are involved in converting trash into ethanol.

Gmail Lets You Preview Flickr, Yelp, YouTube In The Email Message

Gmail has added a new feature today, you can preview YouTube videos, Flickr and Picasa photos all in the email itself without clicking external links.

Previously Google provided this YouTube preview option in its chat service Google Talk and Yahoo Messenger also offered a similar service. They decided if it can be previewed in chat windows why not try the same for emails also, so Google has added the “preview” feature in Gmail.

Now we can YouTube videos, Picas and Flickr photos and Yelp reviews in Gmail.

To preview them, do the following steps:

1.) Go to Gmail Settings and Click “Labs” tab.

2.) In “Labs” tab, you will see the following four new features in Labs.

Enable the video, photo preview settings in Gmail. Photo: Cgullworld.blogspot.com.

3.) Enable the ones you like and click “Save Changes”.

Now you can watch the previews when your friends or contacts send videos, photos and reviews links in their email.

A photo preview in Gmail will look like the picture below:

Preview Picasa photos in Gmail. Photo: Gmailblog.blogspot.com.

A video preview in Gmail will look like the picture below:

Preview YouTube videos in Gmail. Gmailblog.blogspot.com.

If you want your product to have similar preview in Gmail, you can contact Gmail at this link.

Boy, 6, Has 176 IQ, Called 'One in a Million'

Pranav Veera. Boy Genius? Photo: USA Today

Ohio boy Pranav Veera is only six years old and already he can name all the U.S. presidents in the order they served in office. Only one person in a million has an IQ of 176 or above.

Pranav Veera, 6, is from Ohio and looks just like any other kidm -- he loves to relax with video games and plays outside often. But unlike others he has an IQ of 176. Albert Einstein had an IQ of 160.

Only one out of every million has an IQ of 176; Pranav Veera is in that rare group.

His father Prasad Veera noticed that his son is special when he started associating alphabets and colors and was able to recall them together.

Prasad Veera told USA Today:

That kind of puzzled us...You have to have not a normal memorization, but some other means of recall.

Prasad and his wife Suchitra Veera, after seeing unusual behavior from Pranav, decided to test his IQ level. They tested him at Powers Educational Services in Hyde Park, Ohio and found his IQ to be 176.

Pranav’s mother and grandmother, Shanta Sastri, are also training him after school.

He is in prekindergarten, while his classmates are learning alphabets and numbers up to 100. Pranav is able to count over 1 million.

Marci Taylor, his teacher at McCormick Elementary in the Milford School District told USA Today:

He's an amazing child...He knows so much, yet he's probably more excited about learning than any child I've ever seen. He shakes with excitement.

Prasad wants him to take the usual classes and later may put him in advanced classes. Till then, he wants his son to be as normal as possible in school.

Pranav said he aspires to become an astronaut when he grows up.

Open and Save Office 2007 Docx Files in Office 2003

Office 2007 and Office 2003 documents are not compatible; trying to open it in either application is tedious without an external one. Now there is an easy way to open and create Office 2007 documents in Office 2003 with the help of a Microsoft plug-in.

Previously to open an Office 2007 document without the application in our computer, we have to settle for third party applications like Zoho.com or a document converter program to switch them to Office 2003. Now we can open it within Office 2003 by installing the plug-in from Microsoft.

You can download the plug-in here.

MakeUseOf.com claims that this download makes all the applications in your Office 2003 compatible with Office 2007.

Besides these two you can try either Zamzar.com by uploading your file and converting it or you can use Zoho.com word application online and open your Office 2007 document. A plug-in however makes it easier for us to open it in our computers.

Google Mars Adds Live And Historical Images Of Red Planet

Google Mars like the Google Earth and Google Maps has lots of new and old images that span almost the entire Red Planet.

You can find incredible detail about the Red Planet in Google Mars, thanks to pictures from Odyssey’s and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s cameras.

Google Mars has antique maps of Mars from over a century ago to latest images from the Mars spacecraft.
You can see the new maps at Google Mars either online at http://www.google.com/mars/ or offline in 3D via Google Earth at http://earth.google.com/mars.

In Google Mars, you can see a faint glimpse of the "Face on Mars". But the resolution is not very high to see the actual face in it yet.

Click the “Spacecraft” tab at the top of Google Mars page to see where the rovers are and where the Viking Landers and the Russian Mars Landers landed etc.

You can also check the “Mountains”, “Canyons”, “Craters”, “Ridges”, “Plains”, “Dunes”, etc.

A Google spokesman told Telegraph:

"We are entering uncharted territory."

Telegraph said you can also go on virtual fly-bys with the Odyssey and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

There are currently three spacecraft orbiting Mars, Mars Odyssey, Mars Express and the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. We can expect more images and information from them in Google Mars.

Vending Machine Makes Hot Pizza In Italy

Automatic Hot Pizza Vending Machine. Photo: New York Times.

Italian foods are famous for being cooked fresh with fresh ingredients, but an entrepreneur wants to popularize his automatic vending machine that will cook Pizza with fresh ingredients including the dough.

Claudio Torghele, 56, become successful by selling pasta in California, now wants to sell his automatic pizza vending machines in Italy.

Since Italians prefer fresh cooked food, the new vending machine will cook pizza with fresh ingredients, flour, water, tomato sauce and ingredients and will make pizza in less than three minutes for $4.95 a pizza.

Torghele has named this machine “Let’s Pizza” and will make it available in Italy first and might introduce them later in the United States.

Torghele has released this vending machine through an Italian franchise chain, Brekky. They will serve pizza as well as sell salads and sandwiches.

Other European countries have similar vending machines but mostly sell ready-made foods. In France, they have “Yatoo Partoo” machines, which sell milk, juice, snacks and sandwiches 24 hours a day. In the Netherlands, there is Febo, which has about 60 restaurants.

New York Times reports vending machine industry is very big in Europe, they have annual sales of 26 billion Euros ($33 billion). Torghele wants to capitalize on this booming industry.

Torghele got this "hot pizza vending machine" idea after seeing vending machines every where in Italy. He has been trying to develop this vending machine for a number of years. He finally developed a prototype and tested it in Chicago in 2003 and displayed it in a trade fair in Orlando, Florida.

He has now put 20 machines in Germany with help from Unilever, the British-Dutch food giant.

Torghele is very proud of his pizza vending machine. He told New York Times that customer can watch the pizza cook from the beginning to end via small windows installed in the machine.

The customer presses a button to start the pizza making process by choosing one of four varieties, margherita (cheese and tomato sauce), and bacon, ham or fresh greens. A container then dumps flour into a drum, water is then added to the drum and the drum is rotated to mix the ingredients to make the dough. The dough is then pressed flat to form a 12-inch disk.

Tomato sauce is squirted into this dough and cheese is added and they are put into a small infrared oven. The baked pizza is then slipped into a cardboard tray for the customer.

Torghele wants to install these machines in Europe first starting with Italy and then extend the concept to other countries.

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Google GrandCentral Phone Service Now Becomes 'Google Voice'

Google’s GrandCentral, an online phone service for free, is changed to “Google Voice” and has implemented more features such as voice transcription of messages, free SMS messages, conference calling and more.

Google purchased GrandCentral more than two years ago, since then it has been pretty dormant and available only for a selected number of users.

It works as follows:

GrandCentral is a unique service that is available online to manage all your telephone numbers in one place. Once you become a member of GrandCentral, Google assigns you a personal phone number, which you can use it for life. You can connect several phone numbers to this personal number. Instead of handing out several phone numbers (home, work, mobile etc.), you can just hand out one number and forward your calls to wherever you want.

Now Google has changed the “GrandCentral” to “Google Voice” and integrates it with your main Google account.

I have a GrandCentral account, so I was able to play with “Google Voice”, it does a good job. Mashable.com calls “Google Voice” is the “Gmail for Voicemail”.

If you are using GrandCentral, you have to login to migrate to the new “Google Voice” account.

The new “Google Voice” is available only for current GrandCentral users, but Google plans to make it available for everyone soon.

With Google Voice, you will get a personal number, where your friends, family, contacts can call you and leave messages. Google Voice transcribes the call message and sends you a short message. The transcriptions may not be perfect at first but it will give a good summary of the call received.

When you receive the message, you have a variety of options to respond, you can either call back or send a SMS message or email them. Sending SMS messages within the country is free.

We also have the ability to place long distance calls via Google Voice, just dial the number and Google Voice will connect the number to your main phone for free, we only pay for the long distance rates. The rates are very competitive to services like Skype.

Google Voice has a slew of features as shown below:

* Call screening - Announce and screen callers
* Listen in - Listen before taking a call
* Block calls - Keep unwanted callers at bay
* SMS - Send, receive, and store SMS
* Place calls - Call US numbers for free
* Taking calls - Answer on any of your phones
* Phone routing - Phones ring based on who calls
* Forwarding phones - Add phones and decide which ring
* Voicemail transcripts - Read what your voicemail says
* Listen to voicemail - Check online or from your phone
* Notifications - Receive voicemails via email or SMS
* Personalize greeting - Vary greetings by caller
* Share voicemail - Forward or download voicemails
* Conference calling - Join people into a single call
* Call record - Record calls and store them online
* Call switch - Switch phones during a call
* Mobile site - View your inbox from your mobile
* GOOG-411 - Check directory assistance
* Manage groups - Set preferences by group

All the above services are free except for the international calls.

If you don’t have this service, you will wish your local phone carrier offers such services even for a small fee. These are worthy additions to have in a phone.

If you want to apply for this new "Google Voice" service, click here to get an invitation from Google.

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Apple Launches New iPod Shuffle 'World’s Smallest Music Player'

Apple unveiled a new iPod shuffle today, and it is half the size of the current model. It is being dubbed the “world’s smallest MP3 player” on the market.

The new iPod shuffle looks almost as if it has been cut in half; but it has the same functions as the previous model plus some bonus features.

The 4GB version holds up to 1,000 songs. It comes in silver and black colors and is priced at $79.



The changes in the new iPod Shuffle are:

1.) It is smaller than an AA battery size. The dimensions are 1.8" tall x 0.3" (4.57 cm x 0.76 cm).

2.) It incorporates a new VoiceOver feature that will recite the song titles, artists and playlist names (the iPod shuffle has no LCD display). It will recite in up to 14 languages (English, Spanish, Italian, Chinese (Mandarin), Czech, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish and Turkish).

3.) The controls are moved from the iPod shuffle body to the ear bud cord with forward and backward buttons and also activate VoiceOver feature.

4.) Battery life is 10 hours.

5.) It will have the clip just like the previous one, but at only half the size. The clip will securely attach to y our shirt, jacket, workout gear or backpack and is made of aluminum.

6.) The previous iPod Shuffle had a shuffle switch, with an on and off switch separately. Here it is incorporated at one place. When you flip to the left, it plays the music in random order, and when you flip to the center, it plays in order. And when you flip to the left, it turns the Shuffle off.

'Love Poetry Generator' From The World's First Computer Recreated

In 1952, scientists wanted to see how well the world’s first computer “Mark One ‘Baby’” performed. They programmed it to create "love poems". Another researcher has now developed an online version of that "love poetry generator".

Christopher Strachey, one of the scientists involved in creating the "World's first computer", developed a software program for it and fed hundreds of romantic verbs and nouns into “Mark One ‘Baby’”.

The computer, from the huge collection of literary database stored inside, then creates a short poem every time the program was run.

The poem you see below is one of them:

DARLING HONEY
MY WISH CHERISHES YOUR LUST. MY FERVENT FERVOUR FERVENTLY LONGS FOR YOUR AMBITION. MY SYMPATHY CHERISHES YOUR DARLING HEART. MY PASSIONATE SYMPATHY TEMPTS YOUR HUNGER. YOU ARE MY ANXIOUS ENCHANTMENT.
YOURS ARDENTLY
M. U. C.

This computer was largely forgotten until David Ward, a German computer archeologist discovered the program while he researched Strachey’s papers at the Bodelian Library, Oxford.

He then created the same program for an online environment, and created a “loveletters program” emulator. Every time you hit the “reload” button, the site will create a new poem like the one below (from the same set of words it was given as input):

HONEY LOVE
MY ANXIOUS FONDNESS IMPATIENTLY YEARNS FOR YOUR CRAVING ENTHUSIASM. YOU ARE MY BREATHLESS INFATUATION: MY DARLING AFFECTION: MY ARDENT LIKING: MY COVETOUS FANCY.
YOURS ANXIOUSLY
M. U. C.

David Ward has also created a replica of that first computer and will host it in an exhibition in Germany. He will demonstrate the “loveletters program” from that computer.

Translate PDF Files And Office Documents With Google

Do you have a PDF document or Microsoft Office File that you want to translate? Then Google Translate has an easy solution.

Google Translate has slowly started adding more languages to its service, as it now offers automatic translations between 41 languages (you can translate in 1,640 language combinations). The official Google blog said it covers every languages read by 98 per cent of Internet users.

The available languages are:

Albanian, Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese.

Now, it has added another unique feature: You can translate any PDF or Microsoft Office document available online.

How to Translate PDF in a Foreign Language:

1.) Type in the URL (web address) of the PDF document to be translated here at translate.google.com/. For example, you could translate this Spanish document: http://www.cbs.state.or.us/external/osha/pdf/dictionary/spanish-english.pdf

Enter the URL of the PDF document to translate. Translate.Google.Com.

2.) You will get an English-translated version here, as shown below.

Translated PDF document. Translate.google.com

Google Translate first converts the PDF document into HTML and then translates it into the language you want.

If you have a blog or a website, you can also add a Google Translate gadget so any readers can translate your site. To get the Google Translate gadget, just copy and paste the code into your website from here.

Change Batteries In Smoke Detectors Along With The Change In Clocks

A smoke detector and carbon monoxide detector in one. Amazon.com

You must have changed the clock already if not do so today. As you change the time, change the batteries in the smoke and carbon monoxide detectors also annually, it saves lives.

The Daylight Savings Time started officially today and we changed clocks accordingly. But when did you change the batteries in your smoke detectors as well as your carbon monoxide detectors?

Many would have said no, firefighters are advising to change the batteries on an annual basis in sync with changing the times. By keeping a fresh set of batteries, the detectors will be fully functional and ready when an emergency situation happens at home. But since many ignore it, it often spells trouble later. More than 3,800 lives are lost every year because of fires at home because of faulty smoke detector; a good smoke detector would have helped save many lives.

We should change batteries like we change daylight savings time in the clocks and keep it as a regular habit. Firefighters recommend that we take out the old batteries and replace them with new batteries.

North Naples Fire Marshal Dave Raub told WBBH TV that having a smoke detector with no working batteries or a home with no smoke detector is one of the worst things a homeowner can do.

Raub told WBBH TV:

"One of the sad things we run across is people have actually removed their smoke detector batteries, so they could avoid false alarms when they're cooking. Unfortunately, it does do that, but we'll find a lot of the time they didn't get out of the home on time,"

The firefighters also recommend that smoke detector be replaced after 10 years use. Mark it in a calendar like Google Calendar, so you can get reminders (email or SMS) when to replace it.

Smoke and Carbon monoxide detectors are worthy investments so don’t ignore it.

Colorado Woman Uses Super Glue To Fix Her Teeth

Super Glue for the toughest jobs on Earth.

The woman has insurance but only covers up to $1,000 a year. Since she didn’t have enough money to get dental work, she used Super Glue to keep her teeth from falling out.

September Williamson was having problems with her teeth, which seemed to be falling out, but she couldn’t afford proper dental care. To fix her teeth, she has to pay $8,500 for her partial dentures.

Since the insurance will cover only up to $1,000 a year, she couldn’t afford to have the dentures. So, she decided to use “Super Glue” instead to hold the teeth in position.

September Williamson told KKCO, a TV station in Grand Junction, Colorado.

"My kids have never really seen me smile. My husband says he misses it...I have a crown that is Super Glued in the front, but I can't fix it until I can get my dentures on top,"

Who knows how many more out there do similar things to avoid the high health costs?

Company bottles local tap water and sells it openly

A New York company bottles the city tap water and sells it openly. They claim bottling local water is healthier than a soda and reduces environmental costs.

In the US the bottled water is consumed at record amounts. To produce bottles for consumers requires more than 17 million barrels of oil and doesn’t include the oil used for transporting from source to various shops. In many cases in navigates from far away lands like Fiji.

Also, another study showed that it requires 171 billions of fresh water to bottle 41 billion gallons of bottled water.

Another study found that bottled water is no less polluted than tap water. While it costs a penny a gallon of city water, the bottled water costs more than 1,900 times the cost of tap water.

Now, one New York company, Tap’dNY is planning to sell by bottling the local New York City tap water, which is considered one of the best-tasting water sources in the country.

Tap’dNY says it is bottling local water in order to cut out the missions from transporting water from distant parts of the world.

Tap'dNY is a New York City bottled water company with a local twist and knack for honesty. We don't travel the world from Fiji to France seeking water or offer the usual bottled water gimmicks. We work with NYC's public water system to source the world's best tasting tap water, purify it through reverse osmosis and bottle it locally, leaving out ludicrous transportation miles.

We offer an honest and local alternative to thirsty New Yorkers, giving them a smarter choice: to drink their own (award winning) water.

Tap'dNY wants us to use their bottled water only as a second choice, if you can find a local tap water then they suggest us to drink from it directly. When you buy their water they say it is a much better healthy alternative than a soda drink.

I would rather see city officials put drinking water fountains at different parts of the city. Even though Tap’dNY is honest but still the plastic bottles are a waste even with recycling and the cost is the same as the soda drink, when it costs only a penny to get it directly from the city.

It seems like Tap'dNY stole this idea from Penn and Teller.

NeoCube: One Puzzle, Billion Solutions

If you think Rubik’s Cube was a challenge wait until you see the NeoCube. They call NeoCube a puzzle with billions of solution in just one unit.


Neocube more complex than Rubik's cube. Flickr.

The NeoCube comprises a series of high-energy rare-earth ball-shaped magnets. This one set allows us to create and recreate thousands of shapes and sizes.

The video shows how a small sized unit makes a series of shapes and combinations from the same unit. NeoCube creators claim that the game has billions of solutions.

In the site they say NeoCube provides the following benefits:

• It provides stress relief.
• Innovation Initiator: You can create shapes that no one else has created before, virtually unlimited according to the game creators.
• Dual Hemisphere Brain Stimulation: Provides great exercise for the brain
• Educational Benefits: Helps to build things.
• Creative Outlet
• Billions of Solutions

The NeoCube sells for $29.95 at this link here.


Create Unique Designs With NeoCube. Flickr.

The game is like magic, you can create thousands of tricks very easily.

Amazon Launches Kindle Application For The iPhone, iPod Touch

Amazon has released a Kindle application for iPhone and iPod Touch devices, so Kindle owners can read whatever books they have in their library. It works seamlessly between the iPhone and Kindle.

Amazon introduced the new Kindle 2 device last month. The new device is selling well but to make it even more popular, Amazon has launched a free Kindle application for iPhone.

With this new application, existing Kindle owners can read their eBooks they purchased at Amazon.com in their iPhone also. And with their “WhispherSync” feature, Amazon automatically keeps track of what book and page they are reading and it will remember automatically when they open either the Kindle or iPhone at a later time.

TechCrunch notes reading Kindle books at iPhone has a similar experience:

While it won’t go and turn your iPhone’s display into an e-Ink screen, the Kindle application does replicate much of the functionality provided by the namesake device. You can read any Kindle-compatible book you’ve purchased from Amazon’s catalog, read the first chapter of other books for free, adjust text size, bookmark pages, and view notations made on the Kindle.

CrunchGear, associate company of TechCrunch has posted pictures of this Kindle application and it looks very good so far.

Read Amazon Kindle books in iPhone. Crunchgear.com

Currently Fictionwise.com offers thousands of eBooks for iPhone with their eReader application but Amazon will soon be able to supplant them with their huge catalog of books in their store.

Adjust font size of your Kindle Book in iPhone. Crunchgear.com

Though the Kindle application allows you to read books, it doesn’t allow purchases from the Amazon store directly. One has to quit the application and open the Safari browser to purchase the eBooks.



Apple’s iPhone also planning to have an eBook reader in the future but Amazon seems to be ready for it now.

You can download the free Amazon Kindle application here.

This application works only for the US region for now. Also, you can only read eBooks, not the newspapers you subscribe at Amazon.com.

Little Belgian Boy Salutes Canadian Troops

The soldiers usually use the command “Eyes Right!” for dignitaries and leaders, but in this case they use it to salute a Belgian boy.

As they march together, the soldiers use the command “Eyes Right!” to salute a foreign dignitary or a leader as a mark of respect.

The U.S. Military has the following procedure for the “Eyes Right!” command:

The commands are Eyes, RIGHT (LEFT) and Ready, FRONT. These commands may be given at a halt or while marching. The preparatory command and command of execution are given on the right (left) foot while marching. On the command RIGHT (LEFT), all persons, except those on the right (left) flank, turn their heads and eyes smartly 45 degrees to the right (left) (figure 3.6). To return their heads and eyes to the front, the command Ready, FRONT is given as the left (right) foot strikes the ground. On the command FRONT, heads and eyes are turned smartly to the front.

The Canadian military might be having a similar command.

In this case, the Canadian troops are marching on the road after attending a memorial service. A little Belgian boy waits for them patiently and when the soldiers approach him, he stands erect and salutes them. Before that he salutes others, but only one respond to him, others ignore him.

The troops usually are ordered to ignore the spectators sometimes. There was an incident recently when a band leader was fired for smiling at Obama during the march. But in this case the soldiers oblige.

The man who led the Canadian troop issues the command “Eyes Right!” to the boy and all the troops follow the order and look at the boy as a sign of respect.

It must be a special moment for the boy and for his family. The troops also must be commended for recognizing this boy’s salute. It was nicely done by both.

University In Liverpool Offers 'Masters In The Beatles' Degree

A local university in Liverpool, birthplace of the Beatles is officering a Masters Degree in Arts program to specialize in the major “The Beatles Popular Music and Society”.

Liverpool already has an airport named after John Lennon, and has a Beatles Museum and now has a graduate program for studying Beatles.

Liverpool Hope University made this announcement Tuesday that it will offer a new master’s program in “The Beatles, Poplar Music and Society”. The students can analyze Beatle’s song, how they rose from humble means in Liverpool, and how they become popular worldwide etc.

The course listing in Liverpool Hope University said the following:

''The Beatles, Popular Music and Society' marks a seminal advance in popular music studies. For the first time in the UK and possibly the world, a postgraduate taught course is offered to research into The Beatles, the city from which they emerged, the contexts of the 1960s, technology, sound and songwriting and the industries that have set up in their wake to capitalize on tourism in the city of Liverpool.'

The students will be offered four 12-week courses and will submit a dissertation on the Beatles at the end of the course.

Mike Brocken, Senior Lecturer in Popular Music at Hope will be one of the professors teaching this course. He said there are more than 8,000 books about The Beatles, but there is no single place that offers a serious academic study about them. He hopes this Master program will solve the problem.

He claims that they have received numerous requests about this Beatles program not only from within UK but also from overseas including the United States.

Brocken told AP:

"If popular music is about anything, it's about people...If we look at popular culture, it simply provides us with a very complex mirror of ourselves."

If you are interested in this Beatles masters degree program then you can either call the university’s postgraduate inquiry line on 0151 291 3389 or contact them via their website here.

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You type the HTML link in the blank space as shown above in this HTML-PDF-Converter.com Link and click "Make PDF", it converts the link to PDF automatically and prompts you to save the file in your computer. There is no need to download any programs or need a special log-in or share your data with them.

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Microsoft planning a new search engine 'Kumo'?

Kumo search engine results. Photo: All Things Digital.

Microsoft is planning a massive upgrade to its “Live Search” engine with a new product code named “Kumo”, which means cloud or spider in Japanese.

Microsoft wants to build a search engine that is superior to the existing search engines especially its main competitor, “Google”.

Kara Swisher from All Things Digital was able to grab some screenshots of Kumo.

Kara Swisher said in the article that Kumo name sounds funny something like the “crazy dog from the Stephen King” novel.

Microsoft has not said what the name implies but in Japanese it could refer to “Cloud” or “Spider” according to Swisher.

Microsoft search head Satya Nadella sent a letter to all the Microsoft employees to test out this new search engine.

In that letter Satya states:

The Search team needs you. We’ve been working hard to improve our search service and want to share the progress we are making with you. We are launching a new test program called kumo.com for employees to try and provide feedback. Kumo.com exists only inside the corporate network, and in order to get enough feedback we will be redirecting internal live.com traffic over to the test site in the coming days. Kumo is the codename we have chosen for the internal test.

Satya believes Kumo will be a much better search engine than others.

In spite of the progress made by search engines, 40% of queries go unanswered; half of queries are about searchers returning to previous tasks; and 46% of search sessions are longer than 20 minutes. These and many other learnings suggest that customers often don’t find what they need from search today.

Satya also asked for their feedbacks to improve the search engine.

Microsoft also is planning to buy Yahoo search engine, whether that search engine will be incorporated into this one is not clear.

There are already critics for Microsoft's new search engine. Silicon Alley Insider's Henry Blodget disagrees with Satya that search engine needs improvement.

"The main reason we think Microsoft has almost no chance of clawing back any meaningful share in the search game is that, unlike Satya, we don't think today's search is crappy...On the contrary, we think it is extraordinarily good. We usually find exactly what we're looking for within seconds, and if/when we don't, we just tweak the query and try again."

I wish though that Microsoft will concentrate on building a crash-free operating system instead of trying too hard to build a right search engine.

Roku Adds Amazon’s Video On Demand Service

Watch movies at home with Roku Digital Video Player and Amazon.com.

Roku digital video player now can play Amazon’s Video On Demand (VOD) movies and TV shows, users can play any movie title on demand from a collection of over 40,000 movies.

Roku, Inc., maker of the popular Roku digital video player currently has “Netflix Instant Watching with Unlimited Access” option, where users can watch any Netflix movies in their home TV. Now they have added Amazon VOD.

Roku sells a $99 Roku player, which the customer attaches it to a TV and using the built-in Wi-Fi, the customer can play any movie on demand via their broadband internet connection.





Initially, the cost of the set-top box and the movie options were a stumbling block but with Netflix and Amazon movies collections, Roku player suddenly looks like a much better option to have than regular satellite and cable movie collections.

You can purchase or rent movies as well as watch your favorite TV shows from Amazon VOD service.

Anthony Wood, Roku CEO and Founder wrote in a press release:

”We are excited to give our customers access to Amazon’s massive catalogue of top movies and TV shows – including many new releases...The launch of Amazon Video On Demand on Roku demonstrates our commitment to creating an open platform that instantly delivers the entertainment consumers want directly to their TVs.”

Besides customers can either purchase or rent the movies on the same released dates of DVDs.


Roku Digital Video Player.

Roy Price, director of Amazon VOD said:

“The $99 Roku player provides our customers with tremendous value and a compelling entertainment experience...Consumers are looking for inexpensive and hassle-free ways to watch their favorite movies and TV shows, and the Roku player meets that need head-on.”

Another benefit for customers is they don’t have to pay any subscription fees, they can watch it as they are available.

You can purchase the Roku player in Amazon and at Roku website.

The video shows how easy it is to rent and play movies from Amazon VOD via Roku digital player.

Microsoft In 2019?

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How will Microsoft look in 2019? Their Engineers have pretty good idea about it. I hope they are successful and learn from the past.

Sir David Attenborough: Yeti Could Exist

Sir David Attenborough, well known naturalist and broadcaster believes that the legend of abominable snowman or yeti is true.

In a BBC TV interview, Sir David Attenborough talked about yeti. He saw the footprints of yeti that was photographed first in December 1951 near Mount Everest by mountain climbers.

When Attenborough, 82, looked at the alleged footprints of yeti, he said he was absolutely baffled by it.

He told BBC:

"Very, very convincing footprints have been found...Nobody goes up to 19,000 feet just to make a joke."

So, he believes the legend of yeti is true and it exists.

In the article there is another photo of an alleged footprint of Yeti taken by the Japanese mountaineers in September 2008. The climbers took the picture in Mount Dhaulagiri at an altitude of 14,600 feet in northern Nepal.

Even though Sir David Attenborough is a legend and famous for his Planet Earth documentary series, the skeptics would still like to see actual evidence of a body and DNA analysis.